Why We Love Our Robot Lawn Mower

Think about this for a minute. The price of gas is sky high. Gas pollutes the air. You have a busy life and are short on time. Lawn services are expensive and you sometimes don't even recognize the people showing up to your house to cut your grass. Now what if you could take care of all those problems with a single machine? Is it any wonder we love our robot lawn mower.

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Let's start with the conservation aspect. Some estimates say lawn mowers cause about 5 percent of the pollution in our country. That's a pretty astounding figure. If you have any green in you, you know that you would love to find a way to cut down on that figure.

But even if protecting the environment isn't your thing, the price of gas will surely make you want to conserve fuel. It's why more fuel efficient cars are selling better than ever. With a robot lawn mower there's no need to drive to the local station and fill up the container, then bring it home to fill up the mower. Not only is it expensive, it's an added chore to your day.

Now there's the maintenance factor as well. Every year we used to have this bonding experience with our local lawn mower service man. You know the one we're talking about. The one where he empties your wallet over over $100 to service the machine, change the oil and filters, and whatever else he does to make sure our mower is running as well as it should. This is not a knock on service guys. Ours did a fantastic job, but it was an expensive job none the less.

As we had children, time became a premium. We simply didn't have time to mow the yard every week. So we did what many good American families do; we hired someone to do the job for us. Yes it freed up some time, but again, it was costly. And sometimes his helpers were unfamiliar. Yep, they were labor pool workers. There's nothing wrong with that, but we like to err on the side of caution. Especially since we were gone a lot. We just didn't feel comfortable with strangers on our property knowing we are out of town. Why invite trouble? There's enough of it already waiting without our help.

That's when we saw an advertisement for a robot lawn mower. Like you, we were skeptical. But as it turns out it was the best investment we ever made. It did the job and it did it well, without much maintenance at all. We don't even have to be home. It's battery powered, so it does it's work, then returns to the charging station by itself, loading up for when it is programmed to go back to work.

We can now leave town without inviting a burglary. There's no strangers hanging around our property (except maybe those gawking at our machine) and our lawn looks great.

And what do we have to do? Virtually nothing. We program it to run when we want, change the blades maybe once a year, and put it in the shed during the excessivly cold winter months. Since it's electric there's no gas or oil to burn and no polution. It's quiet enough that we could even program it to run during the night if we wanted to.

And it's cheap to run. We estimate it costs us less than $10 a year in electricity. We would spend that in a few weeks on gas with our old mower.

The only drawback is what we already mentioned; the neighborhood gawkers. But can you blame them? We gawked too when we first got it. But the novelty has since worn off. To us it like watching a microwave oven in action, just a regular household appliance.

Granted the robot lawn mower won't but Toro or the neighborhood lawn services out of business, but as it catches on you'll surely be seeing more of them in your neighborhood. Why don't you be the first and enjoy all the benefits?